Re: close() on tcp socket.

[Mahavir Jain <mjainp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ratheesh,

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:30 PM, ratheesh kannoth <ratheesh.ksz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> connect() system call establishes a connection as shown in below steps.
>
> 1.   |client |  ----------------- syn --------------->  | server |
>
> 2.  |Server|  --------------syn+ ack --------------> | client |
>
> 3.  | Client | -----------------ack --------------------> | Server |
>
>
> But establishing connection , client calls close() system call. Client
> is sending FIN+ ACK to server  [ i expected only FIN to be sent from
> client to server ]
>

Above sequence is correct.

See Q2.7 in following link for more details,
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/socket/

-- 
Thanks,
Mahavir
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